Essay by Eric Worrall
First published JoNova – “… I have been low-key surviving off lunch and dinner date invites from my male global north friends who can afford it here. …”
A section of Kenyan delegates, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal, say they’re not spared by hunger pangs.
“I know three people at COP who are sleeping hungry. They told me they are surviving on free biscuits from events happening around,” Doreen, a Kenyan journalist covering COP29, said.
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A section of young delegates attending the world’s biggest climate meet in Baku, Azerbaijan, say they are trying to focus on the conference but are struggling to do so amid pangs of biting hunger.
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A section of Kenyan delegates, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal, say they’re also not spared by hunger pangs.
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A female delegate from Brazil has also lamented how expensive Baku can be.
“Ever since I landed on Saturday and discovered things in Baku are extremely expensive, I have been low-key surviving off lunch and dinner date invites from my male global north friends who can afford it here. To be honest, it feels like they are ‘living’ around here while we merely ‘exist’” she said.
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Read more (paywalled): https://nation.africa/kenya/news/cop29-as-world-meets-to-negotiate-climate-finance-african-delegates-at-conference-struggle-to-afford-food–4822086#story
If this story is true, I’m horrified. At the very least this is a wakeup call to COP organisers to ensure attendees get to eat regularly.
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Wait, I thought these were supposed to be “parties”.
Sign of the times- Will do Greta imitations for food!
I wonder if Greta attended?
Haven’t heard much from her lately.
Consider yourself fortunate.
If they are official delegates of their country then surely their government is paying their bills. If they are attending as representatives of NGOs, do not the NGOs pay their bills? Otherwise, if people can’t affors to eat while they attend these conferences then they should not go. It’s not the responsibility of the COP organisers to feed anybody who wants to attend.
Someone obviously had funds for the air fares and accommodation.!!
Well it’s important for their Gummints or NGOs to expend extremely scarce resources to be there rubbing shoulders with the in crowd and grifters making up the numbers. Otherwise ordinary folk might think it’s a kneesup just for virtue signalling in crowd and grifters.
when I last attended a COP meeting (Berlin) developing countries’ expenses were paid by the EU and NGOs, or they loaned (sold) their credentials to NGOs.
Hang around the vegan counter at the end of the day for leftovers-
Andrew Bolt calls out the ‘hypocrisy’ at COP29 Summit | Sky News Australia
We knew of the hypocrisy from COPs past.
“”If this story is true, I’m horrified. “”
The trouble is few will really be that surprised. After all, if they can be denied the fruits of gas and oil with which to develop their nations they can probably do without a lunch or three, right?
“”Clearly, not every country in Africa is equally endowed, although 22 nations on the continent already use renewables as their main source of electricity, according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, a governance think-tank. Some, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, are sitting on massive hydroelectric potential while others, including Namibia, with its long coastline and deserts, are well placed to harness wind and solar power — and eventually hydrogen.””
https://www.ft.com/content/1e8c12fe-4823-41a1-8069-b6150876427d
At the Glasgow CoP all the prostitutes turned up to provide a ‘civil’ service to the climate change communidee. Travelling circuses can be like that.
“If this story is true, I’m horrified. At the very least this is a wakeup call to COP organisers to ensure attendees get to eat regularly.”
No meat of course! And all of the food must have been produced without the help of ff. Shipped to the site from the nearby farms by horse or mule.
and cooked over a dung fire 🙂
Reminds me of the joke: “There are 100’s of millions of vegetarians around the world, but only ~25million is it by choice.”
Wonder if Sri Lanka sent a delegation? [Recall their 2021 organic farming catastrophe.]
“If this story is true, I’m horrified. At the very least this is a wakeup call to COP organisers to ensure attendees get to eat regularly.
I can see the WUWT headline now. “Delegates have their noses in the trough of subsidized food at COP30. Attendees living the high-life at climate change shindig, paid for by tax-payers.” You can’t have it both ways – choose one.
You can have it both ways if you’re on Ed Miliband’s team
Net zero civil servants rack up over three million air miles this year
Staff in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero took 1,130 flights between January and September
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/28/net-zero-civil-servants-rack-three-million-air-miles-year/
The more miles you rack up, the more virtuous you are.
NB Guess who pays for all that? Yes, the UK taxpayer. And they don’t do Airbnb
You assume that I am in favor of COP meetings and high CO2 emitters. If the top UK CO2 emitters cut their emissions to the average European citizen then UK emissions would be reduced by 30%. One of the easiest ways to make the massive reductions required in the next 3 years. Also reduces costs to UK taxpayer – so you’re in favor of reducing those CO2 emissions?
Why would anyone want to reduce their CO2 emissions?
These people just don’t know how to play the game. Back in the day I used to go to all the large computer and tech shows on a showstring budget. You start by smoozing in a bar and then find out where the big money is hosting it’s hospitality room. Once you’re in you’re in for the game, free food and drinks or if you get lucky a really nice meal at a fancy restaurant. Never went hungry or thirsty.
You have showstrings?
Your hack has been known by conference-goers for millennia.
I’d say it’s the reason most go.
“…I’m horrified.” That ANYONE from the Global South or the Third World would attend a conference that is dedicated to ensuring that most of their fellow citizens are starved and impoverished!
The Climatastrophe Hoax is just another example of what I now like to call Authoritarian Science; a branch of study that pretends to follow scientific principles while relying on the proclamations of “experts,” and the burying or erasing of inconvenient or contrary data! Other examples would be medicine and nutrition; where the authorities have decreed that dietary fat and cholesterol are deadly, and that sugary breakfast cereals are more nutritious than eggs! It will be interesting to see the body counts for the various authorities. Will Ansel Keys wind up crippling, torturing, and killing more than Stalin and Mao combined!? The little Austrian corporal could fall out of the top 5 soon!
They need to stay at the table lest they find themselves on the menu. And to collect scraps, as it were.
hahahaha this is just more dark humor for me at least. Luddite humor.
Perhaps the Kenyan delegates should have stayed at home and help support Jusper Machogu, the young Kenyan farmer running the Just Stop Toil and Fossil Fuels for Africa campaigns on line.
I came across his efforts after the BBC published a hatchet job on him. As a consequence of the Streisand effect I then started following him. You can find him at:
JusperMachogu Substack | Jusper Machogu | Substack
Jusper has previously pointed out how young people from African countries are being paid to turn up and speak as fake “concerned climate activists” at conferences eg:
Sri Lanka Vs Africa. – by Jusper Machogu
I’m a fan of Jusper – really exposed the BBC’s get back to the plantation mentality in my opinion.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/19/bbc-worried-about-kenyan-farmers-climate-scepticism/
Can we get an on-scene report from Mark Morano about these starving delegates?
They should have signs saying “Will whine for food”.
The tragedy is these hungry people don’t realize the goal of this ‘convention’ they are attending will limit their food at home even more.
Oh they probably do. But are selfish enough not to care, as long as they’re getting free stuff right now.
The wellbeing of humans is low on their list of priorities.
Eric, this is just another indication that the entire UN IPCC charade is a Western elite Kabuki dance surrounding climate change fearmongering. The Leftist, Marxist and outright Communist ringmasters orchestrating the lies don’t care about the Third World poor; the anti-American and anti-Capitalists ideological narrative is driving the whole moneymaking and power-seeking enterprise.
Let them eat
cakeinsects.I attended PDAC (a miners investors convention in Toronto) in 2018. As a student I opted to stay in a hostel, $35/night. My neighbors in the hostel were Embassy staff from some small African country. It never occurred to me that I should have been buying them breakfast.
What, no “bugs” available?
Only the bedbugs in the $1000 / night hotels…
Hey, this piece was written by Tony Thomas of Melbourne, published at Quadrant Online https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/doomed-planet/the-famished-freeloaders-of-baku/ as The Famished Freeloaders of Baku, and then excerpted by Joanne Nova.
It’s great to see it circulating widely but authorship needs to be stated correctly. Credit where it’s due
As you get what you pay for, in general, welfare for poor delegates will just breed more deluded attendees being induced into the fraudulent COP nonsense. The best thing to do is to strongly and widely advertise the difficulties, along with the uselessness. Perhaps more will understand they can no doubt do something more productive with the funds available closer to home.
Hey! Correct attribution needed!
The original article about Cop29 and high expenses was researched by Tony Thomas and published in Quadrant Online.
It was Tony who revealed the shortage of food funds reported in an African article.
As sometimes happens, the theme was picked up and related in the Jo Nova blog, with attribution.
Then parts of appeared here on WUWT, without mention of Tony Thomas and his original idea and original research.
Geoff S
The developing world delegates should learn from this example just how sincere their own corrupt politicians and the developing world eco-elites are about spending wealth to improve the lives of the poor. As long as there are caviar, champaign, commercial sex and private jets the party continues and the poor watch from a great distance.
Did they not bring enough money for a McDonalds or KFC or Dominoes?